East of Boston

Hanna's In The Hizzy!

SUNDAY - Hanna Update:  Hanna Delivers Flooding Rain, Power Outages
Tropical Storm Hanna delivered torrential rain and wind late Saturday night into Sunday, dumping as much as six inches of rain in some areas. The storm tracked right over Cape Cod, sparing that area the worst of the rain, which fell on the north and west sides of the storm's center. The Cape was hit with strong winds. About 15,000 Massachusetts customers were without power, with the heaviest concentration in the Merrimack Valley. There were other scattered reports of street flooding and downed trees across the region... WBZ.  On Cape Cod and the islands there was also little overnight damage, with only small trees limbs downed and scattered power outages... Globe.

 If I'm correct- and I usually am- this will update whenever you refresh the page. Hanna is that big green/yellow/red thing. For another, closer view, click here.

It's not really a storm until the marina breaks out the little matching storm flags. 

Advance moisture from Hanna heads for da bridges! And the Storm Flag was flying at Chatham Lighthouse on Saturday afternnon.

Here's what we know at the Sports Desk....

There is a tropical storm warning for pretty much all of SE new England, us included. Hanna is currently (4 PM) over Maryland/Delaware, heading northeast at around 25 mph. We've already had some of the rain from it, and the big winds should arrive at 9-10 PM. Betting at our house has the eye coming ashore at around the CT/RI border, but that could easily change in a few hours. The highest winds we should see from this will be 60 mph gusts, but something hurricane force (briefly) wouldn't be that big of a shocker.

High tides go about 5 AM in Falmouth, 6 AM in Onset, 6:30 in Nantucket, etc... astronomically low tides, too... which is good, because Hanna will be right on top of us at these times. Tides are expected to run 1-4 feet above normal.

Here's the expected track:

Keep your head up, y'all.

Update: 10 PM... it's just about on us now... rain in Wareham.